Movable-eye doll.



H. SEAGULL & 0. H.- WECHSLER.

MOVABLE EYE DOLL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I, 1918.

Patented July 30, 1918.

WITNESSES IN VISA/T085 A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SEAGULL AND OSCAR H. WECHSLER, OF NEW YORK, N, Y.

MOVABLE-EYE DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY SEAGULL and OsoAn H. \VEoHsLEn, both citizens of Rou mania, but having declared our intention to become citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Movable-Eye Doll, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to toys and has particular reference to dolls having pivoted or movable eyes and commonlyknown as sleeping dolls.

Among the objects of the invention is to so construct the mechanical features of the eyes as to provide a structure that is both simpler and more reliable in practice than any of the many devices now on the market for this purpose. By this means, therefore, we accomplish the object of producing a superior article at a much lower cost than has heretofore been possible.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and While the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section on the plane of the center of the left eye on the line 11 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking forward toward the back part of the eye structure; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line .33 of Fig. 2.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein we show a preferred embodiment of the construction we indicate a figure toy in the nature of a dolls head 10 of hollow construction and of any suitable material preferably of plastic nature adapted to be easily formed or manipulated while in a comparatively soft condition, but which will soon harden after being formed. In this head structure we form eye openings 11., the walls of which. are of spherical concavity for the accommodation of mechanical eyes 12 of spherical convex form which are piv oted for a limited amount of rolling movement in said eye openings or sockets.

The eyes 12 may be of any suitable construction, except as may be prescribed by the claims made at the end of the specification, but as indicated each eye comprises preferably a light sheet metal or similar construction having on the side adjacent to the other eye a rearwardly and downwardly pro ecting arm 13 and on the outer side a lug 14, the arm and lug being provided with registering holes through which a ivot bar 15 projects. The bar 15 is preferably made of a simple straight piece of wire or its equivalent upon which the eyes are adapted to rotate freely except as restricted by the means hereinafter stated. eyes are pivoted upon the same bar, the axis of which coincides with the diameters of the eyes in which the centers of spherical curvature thereof are located.

At the bottom edge of each eye is provided a lug 16 adapted to strike against the inner surface of the lower portion of the eye opening or socket whereby the upward turnin or rolling of the eye is limited. A lug 1 carried by the upper edge of each eye serves by strikin against the wall of the eye opening or socket to limit the downward rolling or closing movement of the eye. This rolling movement of the eye will be understood as being relative for as a matter of practice the eyes are subject to practically no rolling movement since they are held relatively stationary while the head is tilted to various positions as indicated in Fig. 1.

The arms 13 extend rearward and downward having formed in each an angle 13 substantially midway between its ends. The innermost end of each arm is provided with a gripping device 18 for cooperation with a relatively heavy weight 19 which may be of lead or its equivalent and preferably of a stiff or permanent form. The gripping device comprises a plurality of lips or flanges bent inward from the end of the arm and so may embrace a side portion of the weight. Thus the arms and eyes are held in fixed relation to each other for simultaneous relative movement around the axis of the bar 15. The particular formation of the arms 13 insures that with the head held in erect position or in any position approximately erect as opposed to any reclining position the weight 19 will serve to hold the eyes wide open as shown in full lines in Fig. 1,

Preferably both More specifically with the weight hung at produced.

We call attention now to the manner of holding the bar 15 in place in the side walls of the head. 20 indicates a socket into which one end of the bar is introduced-and where said end is held from positive movement in any direction. The other end of the bar in the introduction of the bar into place with the eyes mounted thereon moves in the arc of the circle indicated at 21, the center of which is the first mentioned end of the bar in the pit 20. This movement of the second end of the bar takes place along a slot 22 at the end of which is a positive wall 23 against which the bar rests with sufficient clearance between the eyes and the walls of the sockets to insure free rolling movement of the eyes. In this position of the bar when the .head structure hardens and shrinks slightly both ends of the bar will be sufficiently embedded in the side walls of the head to preclude any possibility of displacement thereof. \Vhen the head is green and relatively soft the bar may be easily in-.

serted either through the neck opening 24. or otherwise if the head be made of several pieces.

We claim:

1. The combination with a doll head having eye sockets, of a pair of mechanical eyes fitted for free relative movement in said sockets, and a pivot bar around the axis ing open ended slot, a pair of eyes fitted forrelative rolling movement in said sockets, and a single pivot member for the eyes having one end fitted in said pit and the other inserted along said slot.

3. In a doll, the combination of a hollow head having eye sockets, a pair of eyes fitted for free relative rolling movement in the sockets, means to limit the rolling movement thereof, a pivot bar for both eyes secured in the side walls of the head and only in the side walls of the eye sockets remote from each other, the pivot bar being unsupported between the eyes, and asingle weight device for both of the eyes servin to insure the desired relative movement between the head and the eyes.

4. In a doll, the combination with'a hollow head having a pair of eye sockets formed therein and having pivot engaging means in the opposite side walls beyond the eye sockets, of a pivot bar having its ends held in said engaging means and being unsupported intermediate of its ends. a pair of eyes supported upon the pivot bar and fitted for relative rotation. in said eye sockets around the axis of the bar, each eye having a rearwardly and downwardly extending arm terminating in gripping means, and a single weight for both eyes and arms gripped by said gripping means, substantially as set forth.

HENRY SEAGULL. OSCAR H. VVECHSLER. 

